The Waterman family is a locally prominent, middle-upper class family. 7.4 Press reports which mention the case within a larger context.At the time police say the killing occurred, Rachelle Waterman was apparently playing in a volleyball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska.Īpart from the online diary Rachelle kept, the case is also unusual because matricide committed by female minors is extremely rare. She was also a member of the Academic Decathlon team (ACDC) and sang in the choir, a profile that has left many people questioning her involvement in the killing and asking what motive there might be. Waterman was a tenth-grade honor (A-average) student in her second year at Craig High School. Every entry since March 2004 has apparently now been deleted or hidden, but a ZIP archive of the entire weblog, from before the entries were deleted, is available on Deadly Blogging. I thank everyone for their thoughts and e-mails, I hope to talk to you when I get my computer back.Ī diverse group of users, both friends and strangers, have posted over 5,000 comments on the journal, positive and negative, transforming the case into an Internet phenomenon. I won't have computer acess until the weekend or so because the police took my computer to go through the hard drive. Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered. The last entry, which has since been removed from public view, was posted on Novemand read:
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The case has rapidly received a wide following on the Internet, partly because Waterman kept a public record of her thoughts and activities on LiveJournal, a popular blogging service. Rachelle Waterman, (aka Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman and "smchyrocky"), a 16-year-old girl from Craig, Alaska, USA, has been charged with the first degree murder of her mother.